A few people have approached me recently to ask me about the importance of aggression in poker. Of course aggression is important and I am not going to say otherwise and I am a very aggressive player myself when I am involved in most pots.
But blind aggression is something else and can be a terrible weakness if implemented in the wrong circumstances. Any fool can be aggressive, I could teach that to a school kid in no time at all. But the skill is knowing when to be aggressive and how often.
I have lost count of all of the “hot shots” who have breezed into games that I have been in and thought that they could push everyone around all because they had seen someone do it on TV or they had read it in a book somewhere.
The trick is to get your ratios right, I get away with an awful lot both in NL100 because of the fact that my opponents believe me more because of how I play, underpinning all that is the fact that my ratio of aggression to non aggression is pretty good.
Been playing on NL100 this week and done quite well and also had a couple of good sessions at NL200 although one of the games was very tough and I should have left but I had a rush of cards that was something else.
I dont always play NL100 and sometimes drop down to NL50, the game needs to be very good, there are many strong players in those games that I will not tangle with because I have no discernable edge. I spend more time watching that game these days but I know when weak players are active so my time is not entirely wasted.
I will be discussing my SNIPER coaching program soon on Sharkpool as I will be going into poker coaching in a more serious way in 2014 as well as staking players that I coach. So it may be a good idea to keep an eye out for that to see if you want to come on board my coaching and staking program and get access to my SNIPER poker system.
Hope that you have a good weekend,
See you soon
The Dean is an online poker pro at www.888poker.com
